Thyroid and voice
Common Questions and Answers about Thyroid and voice
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You might want to get your thyroid checked at this is a sign of an unbalanced thyroid. Ask for a thyroid panel and be that they check your thyroid antibodies and free t3 as well. My sister loosing her voice was one of her fist symptoms of hashimotos. To find out get "The Thyroid Solution"--
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It is growing quickly and my trachea is moved and my voice is hoarse. My MD says I have no other option besides surgery and I need to do it quickly. 1.How big a deal is this? 2. Am I safer to have an otolaryngologist or gen surgeon? 3. What is risk to my voice? ( I 've read anything from 25% chance to 1% chance of losing my voice). I am very fearful.
Shortly after the US my voice got hoarse and I thought I was getting a cold. No real cold came and within a week or so my voice was back to normal.
The beginning of January my voice went hoarse again. I didn't think anything of it at first but it hasn't come back. It started off as gravelly like I was getting a cold, but now it is much more breathy and raspy and it's sometimes hard to talk.
The results were: The left lobe either measures 3.84 x 1.73 x 1.61 cm or represents a recurrence of thyroid tissue, possibly malignant. Absent right lobe of thyroid gland. In May of 2009, a thyroid uptake and scan was performed which stated: The thyroid images demonstrate an asymmetry in thyroid lobe size with a right-sided dominance. In Jun. 2009, has lab tests the results being:
TSH: 1.356
T4: 1.42
Thyroid Peroxidase: 365
Antithyroglobulin: 22
T3: 3.
i've undergo a surgey end of march2008 for the removal of thyroid cystic lesion.but till now my voice hasn't come back to normal..they couldn't hear me well when i'm in a public places..sometimes it seems that two voices coming out when i speak..i spoke to my surgeon,i even undergo endoscopy to see whats happening inside.and as what they said the healing is very slow and still swollen.they give me this medicine (prednisolon)to help me..i'm starting to lose my confidence..
They said that he had mono from having tonsilitis and taking amoxicillin. They check his thyroid levels and said that everything was normal. They didn't say anything about any nodules. They also didn't say anything about a growth, just that there was some tissue on his thyroid. His ent dr. says that he needs to go to speech therapy, because he is not relaxing his vocal cords, but he can get his voice back sometimes, but then it goes away again.
they sent me to a lung specalist who basically said it was nothing so i went back to my doctor he put me on meds for the diabetic and thyroid but the pain in chest/back has not stopped or the voice horseness either. Do i need a higher dosage of medicine? Or is there something else wrong? I never knew thyroid could cause chest/back pain?
I had every test so far and awaiting my biopsy. Levels are good but nodules are around 1x6 so quite big x3. Haven't been put on any meds and so far I have been loosing my voice on and off all day long as well dealing with extreme fatigue - also most recently developed a strange rash covering body with is due to stress and auto immune.
The nodules in thyroid can compress the voice nerve causing partial paresis of the vocal cords resulting in hoarse voice and hiccups .Next, the goiter is adding mass to the voice box which distorts the voice. Finally the goiter can cause compression symptoms by narrowing the trachea causing a weak voice. In that particular case, singing with the head tilted back may help.
Ask for a complete thyroid workup with labs, antibodies, and an ultrasound or CT scan of your thyroid area. A sudden change in your voice could be your thyroid (or a thyroid nodule) compressing your vocal chords but they need to do more studies.
Also, menopause affects thyroid hormones too (estrogen and thyroid hormones are closely related) so they need to check your thyroid levels.
It can cause fungal infections, hoarseness, and temporary loss of voice. You may need to have a throat culture done to make sure you do not have a fungal infection. I am not saying that this is the only possible reason you have problems losing your voice, but I would put it at or close to the top of the list.
Hope this helps!
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